CERTIFICATE TO A. R. SHAPOSHNIKOV

Written:Written on March 22, 192tPublished:First published in 1941 in the magazineBolshevikNo. 9.

      Printed from a typewritten text signed by Lenin.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Thisis to certify that Alexei RomanovichShaposhnikov, peasant of Beketovo Village, Bulgakovo Volost, Ufa
Uyezd, Ufa Gubernia, was summoned by me to Moscowfor discussion of and consultation on an important matter
relating to the peasant
economy.[2]

Inhis explanations and replies, citizenA. R.
Shaposhnikovhas been honest and scrupulous.

AllSoviet authorities of the R.S.F.S.R. are hereby
requested to help citizenA. R. Shaposhnikovin every
possible way to return to peaceful labour in his domicile.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)[1]Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Thecertificate is also signed by G.P.C. secretary Lydia
Fotieva.—Ed.

[2]Inconnection with preparations to switch from the surplus-food
requisitioning to the tax in kind, Lenin was collecting and
studying peasant opinion on ways to boost agriculture. In early
March 1921, on his invitation, Moscow was visited by peasants
A. R. Shaposhnikov, T. G. Kondrov and I. G. Kondrov, whohad talks with Lenin, M. I. Kalinin and A. D. Tsyurupa, and
attended a sitting of the All-Russia C.E.C. which approved the
substitution of the tax in kind for surplus-food requisitioning.
Upon their return home, the peasants reported on their trip and
meeting with Lenin to the gubernia non-Party peasant
conference at Ufa. The conference sent Tsyurupa a telegram declaring
that they “noted with satisfaction the promulgation of new land
tenure laws” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).